Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
839405 Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 2016 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we study the global well-posedness of 2D anisotropic nonlinear Boussinesq equations with horizontal temperature-dependent viscosity and vertical thermal diffusivity in the whole space. Due to lacking vertical viscosity and horizontal thermal diffusivity, there is no smooth effect in those directions. Besides, the nonlinearity of temperature-dependent viscosity gives rise to new difficulties. To solve it, we make full use of the incompressible condition and anisotropic inequalities to obtain the H1H1 estimates of velocity field and H1+sH1+s estimates of temperature for any s∈(0,1/2]s∈(0,1/2]. In the end, we build up a uniqueness criterion which together with the a priori estimates admits a unique global solution without any smallness assumptions.

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